PI data reductions (Yuliana) M31 reductions are very challenging because estimation of the background variation is very difficult to make given the crowded nature of the field. It could also be that with the current software the background level actually depends on the background. An additional problem is that there is a constant background level which is not removed by the sky background subtraction (which just removes a level around zero). One idea to remove this constant background level by subtracting sucessive observations.
PI data reductions (Patrick) Barnby data released. Flaguet data released Vergani data finished. Emmanuel will help with psf fitting photometry for this field. Request for old Bouvier run which will be released. Loudier data request New data request from Bouvier which has a very crowded field with a nebula, but reducing data is very challenging.
Unfortunately for patrick there are too many WIRCAM data runs to reduce! New priorties: 07BF99 from bouvier. Postpone Loudieu and Bouvier OFBF98 We will try to telephone Laesker to find find out what he wants to do (it's not clear) Patrick will focus more on software development spending at least two days a week on software development and in the near future and Yuliana will spend one day a week on software developement
Development Patrick has developed a technique to remove black stripes from the images (seen on 30% of images from Jerome Bouvier Some small changes have been made to the sky subtraction script to allow one to specify the number of cubes instead of the number of images. - Script to flag saturated pixels needs to be flagged.
WIRDS data reductions WIRDS D1 data is almost ready JHK data reduction almost finished and will be released to the community at the end of the month.
Megacam u* Dave Sanders has given his okay for the u-band data reduction. Henry will contact CFHT with a list of QRUNids
Youpi (Mathias, Greg) Image selector has been improved and warnings indicated when there are problems with the input files. Greg needs to add the weight maps to the sextractor plugin. Roadmap: On thursday Yuliana will get access the data from T05 and Youpi. There will be a feature freeze on 23rd of March.
System, Hardware (fred) There is data on fcix2 and fcix3 which have never been removed from the LDO database. Once this data is backed up we can remove the old stuff.
Other stuff There is some extra money left over from astro-wise (2,000 EUR). which we will use for miscellaneous hardware requests. Mathias (M.) will provide a cost estimate of travel expenses for him and Greg for the ADASS meeting in Japan.
M31 reductions are very challenging because estimation of the background variation is very difficult to make given the crowded nature of the field. It could also be that with the current software the background level actually depends on the background. 
